#Somnambula

[heilos]

Living Harmony AU relevant character sheets/info: Harmony aka the "Tree of Harmony" Stygian Shadow Lock Starswirl the Bearded Somnambula is the next pillar up on the list with an updated design, courtesy of my buddy Ori, and a fresh character sheet from me. Her and Mistmane are the two pillars that ended up getting a species swap with their rewritten backstories for this AU. Bat ponies were super underutilized in the MLP G4 show and the idea of Somnambula and her town being mostly made up of Egyptian fruit bat ponies was super fun to think about. Listed below is some character and story context for these sketches provided by my myself and Ori like usual. Hope you enjoy!

Pillar of Aspiration

Bat pony from ancient Neighgypt

Comes from a village made up of mostly bat ponies with some of the other standard pony races sprinkled in and a healthy population of anubis style diamond dogs

Not a princess, but the equivalent of high nobility in her culture. Had cash to burn and was very generous in giving her wealth to the less fortunate in her village be it money, food, clothing etc...

Was also an advisor to the Pharaoh and Prince Hisan

Her village was trapped in a collective dream by a huge mythical Sphinx that hails from the dream realm. It would have turned Somnambula’s ponies into dreamless husks had she not broken free and solved the Sphinx’s riddles, which were the basis of its magic.

Somnambula’s artifact, the Sphinx’s Crescent Moon, is a trinket she stole straight from the Sphinx’s headpiece. Affixing it to her tiara, it allows her free travel between the dreaming and physical realms. Though, spending so much time in the Dream Realm as a mortal pony has its consequences…

Gained a weird aura about her after breaking the Sphinx’s spell. A small radius around her is folded into dream space, which makes it difficult to perceive her normally. She’s essentially a friendly cognitohazard. Take a good look, because you won’t be able to recall her face later. Lucid dreamers can see past this effect.

Has a somewhat eerie quality to her that she likes to play up. Dispenses philosophical queries just to mess with ponies such as: “Perhaps I am merely a fruit bat dreaming that she is a pony” or “Perhaps this is a dream, you don’t know!”

Has sharp teeth, but they’re meant for biting into fruits. Sometimes will joke about "gobbling" someone up if they get too close

Sleeps like a regular bat by hanging upside down. The bottom of bat pony hooves can grip many different surfaces for this purpose

Firmly believes in making your dreams into reality

Ancient Equestrians would call upon her name for protection in their dreams

Dream walked so Princess Luna could dream run

Somnambula is Luna's favorite pillar and legend

Is celebrated with a statue of her in the center of the town “Somnambula” in modern Equestria. However it incorrectly depicts her as a pegasus pony instead of a bat pony due to wibbly wobbly history record keeping and/or the strange dream like effect that surrounds her

Somnambula’s Weather Abjuration (The Crystalling Part 2 - 16:26) is a spell named after her, though she herself had no hoof in its creation. It’s very likely that this weather ward was made after the perception of Somnambula shifted into her being a pegasus

Somnambula redesign by Orin331

[nextgenfoals]

Would it be okay to ask for a Somnambula and Pinkie kid?

ani is a very sociable and friendly stallion, always giving visitors to somnambula the warmest of welcomes! he also helps to organize the ceremonial offerings made during the village's festivals.

~ mod honey 🍯

[balkanparamo]

The Sleepwalker: Maximillian Pirner (1854-1924)

[ruby124y]

[marioparty15spoilers]

I can't stop drawing these

[mylittlestims]

Somnambula board with gifs pertaining to ancient Kemet (Egypt). Please? :)

Somnambula Stimboard with Ancient Egypt related stims for Anon

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[fox-trot7]

Somnambula my beloved

[thenerdymouse]

Pillars of Old Equestria!

My version!

It took me a lot to finish these, but I finally made them! I love Rockhoof and Meadowbrook. I'm happy all of them turned out well.

My hands hurt.

Mage Meadowbrook

Rockhoof

Starswirl (or Star Swirl) the Bearded

Mistmane

Flash Magnus

Somnambula

[girl-of-stupidology]

It’s still February It’s still February It’s still February It’s still February It’s still Valentines Day It’s still February It’s still February It’s still February It’s still February 😊❤️

(Yippee MORE Sun n’ Shade)

[ewoudcponies]

Somnamblep.

[mylittlefusions]

the ask got eaten but saffron masala + somnambula for collab month!! mod mushroom did the lines/sketch, and mod jay did the colors!!

her name, haldi, is the hindi word for turmeric, a spice that promotes sleep 💛

[nextgenfoals]

Twilight Sparkle x Somnambula

I think she’s a writer :) — mod charm

[opinionsaremagic]

rip somnambula you would've loved hadestown

[moon-latte88]

The old guys of the old times

Here the guys by themselves :p

[varian-and-the-crystal-empire]

A little headcanon I have that doesn’t really change anything in the canon or my story is that the pony who did Luna’s dream duties before Luna was Somnambula

She’s all about helping ponies keep up hope and her name is derived of sleep walking and her cutie mark almost looks like a crescent moon with stars

[caw-rky]

So, Pillars 1/? next ! (I am soon beginning to do the mane 6, I have their species but I'm checking if they "fit" with the episodes I'm planning… Cause I decided "And what if I shuffle the episode by putting them in random season and only allowing me to move them after to have around the same number of episodes by seasons?")

After the reign of Grogar the terrible, multiple monsters roamed the world. Some more dangerous than the others. Amongst the worst are the Windigoos. Using the power of discord and animosity between ponykind, they froze the ground and anyone standing in their paths… Ponies tried to run away from them, find a new territory. Bu wherever they ran, the windigoos followed. That until the events of Hearth's Warming, where three tribe leaders and their companions managed to get the creatures to run away, but nopony knew how or why. It is a few years later than Stygian, a triton found and raised by Starswirl the bearded, found the reason. An echo in the nature of the different ponies, reasonnating in the presence of their different abilities. Despite the alicorn's doubts, they formed a group containing ponies of all subspecies. -Starswirl the Bearded, the only adult alicorn at the time and most powerful sorcerer of all Equus. -Clover the Clever, his kirin disciple. A powerful witch and friend of the princess Puddinghead. -Stygian, the only triton not in ocean and thus the only one they know. -Flash Magnus, a legendary unicorn soldier and often-time guard of the alicorns. -Somnambula the earth pony hero of the land from which she has the name. -Rockhoof the crystal pony hero who saved his town from a volcano. -Mistmane the older bat pony hero, whose kindness only equal her previous beauty. -Meadowbrook the legendary pegasus healer.

Together, they managed to make the Windigoos disappear before fighting multiple threats of the world before disappearing, a few decades before the alicorn sisters became princesses of all of Equestria, the united kingdom of ponies.

Next post (that will feature a drawing of a sleeping-pony-pile) will be on the group dynamic, before going on a character-by-character (or possibly two-by-two) post to talk about their story (pre-apparition ofc) and type of pony characteristics.